Make simple and inexpensive Easter decorations by recycling waste with creativity

The Easter holidays, a bit like Christmas, encourages us to celebrate this season with many decorations that beautify the house and which are often also serve as our greeting to Spring, that returns to fill nature with new life and color. We tip our hats and greet Spring and Easter with decorations adorned with colorful, flamboyant flowers, but also eggs, baby chicks, bunnies with their carrots, and much more.

To deck out your home with all these decorations, you don't necessarily have to spend a fortune or have a garden full of flowers at your disposal: it is often simply enough to creatively recycle objects that perhaps lie forgotten in some corner of the house. Check out these brilliant ideas below:

Wreaths with a framework of intertwined, interlaced branches always look very beautiful, even when decorated only on one side. And for this decoration, in addition to real or artificial flowers, you can use painted eggshells that will look a bit like the flowers of the Peony plant!

To create a unique centerpiece for the table, you can use egg cartons cut and arranged in a circle: some filled with colored eggs, others with flowers - maybe even artificial ones!

Wooden clothespins, taken apart and put back together so as allow one to glue the long, smooth sides together, can be painted orange and equipped with a ting green bow on top. They will become the perfect, faux carrots for a customised decoration, like perhaps an Easter table centerpiece.

You can also use a bunch of them to create fun wreathes to hang wherever you want in your home.

Or join several of these faux carrots together to make large bunches of the bunnies favorite food to use in decorating the table at Easter.

Another resource that is always useful in craft projects, even at Easter, are glass jars such as those used for jams and other preserves: they are easily painted to become festively themed flower vases.

Or you could arrange indoor compositions from dry branches which you can then decorate with real or fake eggs.

There is no shortage of ideas on how to recycle glass bottles. Similarly, using plastic bottles the neck, still with the lid on, can be cut and then painted so as to resemble the shape of a broken eggshell. Inside you could plant some flowering bulbs.

The bottom of thick plastic bottles, decorated as you please, can easily be transformed into an a basket that the kids can use when hunting for the hidden Easter eggs.

If you have wood laying around that you can use, you could easily create decorations to place in the garden, such as silhouettes of bunnies. You could perhaps place these silhouettes among the plants of some flower bed or even at the entrance of the house.

With discarded champagne or sparkling wine corks, you can give life to many adorable bunnies.

An old cake pan makes a great planter for planting bulbs, then festively decorated with eggs and feathers.

Happy Easter!